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pi^fetvcdoiily sunder favorablcccirGumllanccs, il itnuflilook upon this 

 laKonc proof in favorcdf the opinion to ibc afterwards oflfered/thatithe 

 templesvof >P mmbanan zre not oiz very remote -aotiquky: -but rather 

 ccomparativcty modern ftrudurcs. 



-A »aw huddrtd yards to the weft of the -^temples nowniefcr ibed, are 

 tthc remains of a group fimiUr in charadler to all thofe already def- 

 cribed. The mere foundations however, only remain, and even fehcfe 

 Jsave been very recently .di (Curbed for the few bricks they contained, 

 and which were to be traced in the piers of a bridge clofc -by. The 

 pedeiialsof a number of a very large ftatues are ftill among the ruins, 

 and four -huge warders have by their (ize efeaped the general dcRruc- 

 tion. Thefc it may be remarked appear as double Geatinels - to-tinc 

 jentrancc on the fouth fide ofihe ruin. 



We Tec indeed from ^a re'rofped of the fituation of t-he warders, 

 throughout the ruins, that there is no one eltablifhed mo^ie .of difpofing 

 of them, and that the eetrancc to the temples may be towards any 

 one, or all four of the cardinal points of the com pa fs. Here the en= 

 trance is to the fouth, at Plaofan there are two entrances to the weft, 

 in the far the ft eaft of .the temples, the approach is ;to the e&ll, and >&t 

 the •* ihoufand temples" there is one at each of ihe four quarters. 

 Nearly oppofite to thefe ruins anxi to the north fide of the'hig'h roid 

 is a temple differing entirely in ffiape fronvall- the rrft, lynt from the 

 chara£lerof the archite6ture, and the nature of nhe fculpfunis^ and de- 

 corations, evidentlyconneded with the -fame religious worfhip^ and 

 conftrufted by the fame people as all the others. It has fomethin^ a^ 

 the appearance of a long barn, and confiftsof two ftoiies with an arch- 

 ed roof. Within it is divided into three chambers, the lar^^eft in the 

 centre, and this, communicating with the two fmaller onesat the ends 

 From the regular fets of conefponding aperiuresin the oppofitc walls. 



